W kręgu hanzeatyckich migracji, czyli pochodzenie Mikołaja Kopernika

• Authors: Krzysztof Mikulski

Title variants

DE

Im Kreis der hanseatischen Migrationen – über die Herkunft von Nicolaus Copernicus

EN

In the circle of hanseatic migrations the ancestry of Nicolaus Copernicus

• Languages of publication: PL DE

Abstracts

EN

The eminent French historian Fernand Barudel pointed out in his works about the Med that one would need for understanding of activites of an individual a wide context created by the social space and environment in which the main hero tends to live in. For Braudel became Philippe 2nd only a pretence to analyse the whole civilisation of the Med in his times. This context can be employed on the man of letters, a loner, spending the most of his life in his astronomical observatory – Nicolaus Copernicus. Unquestionably, the social environment of Thorn exerted the biggest influence on the formation of the young Copernicus. The city was located on the lower Vistula, on the boarder of the state of Teutonic Knights and Poland, with strong relationships with Silesia, Cracow and Hansa and over Hansa with Northern Europe. This location created extraordinary circumstances for the formation of the one of the biggest intellects of his times. This cultural mosaic was the native environment of Nicolaus Copernicus, a German-speaking Pole, on the maternal side a descendant of immigrants from Westphalia, on the paternal side of Silesian Copernicus-family with Slavic roots, from his birth to his death the faithful subject of the Polish kings.

Keywords

EN

Toruń in the Middle Ages; genealogy for Nicolaus Copernicus; nationality and ethnicity of Copernicus

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Studia Maritima
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 27/II
• Pages: 29-56

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Mikulski

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

translator

Anna Sulikowska